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Fit For Purpose?

Fit For Purpose?
  • Duration:  09:11
  • Filesize:  7.4MB
  • 16-10-2007
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SenScot have been looking at ways social enterprise can become involved in developing new ideas about working in the health sector in Scotland. The second social enterprise and health conference was held in the Trades Hall, in Merchant City, Glasgow.

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Focus on Social Firms

Focus on Social Firms
  • Duration:  10:09
  • Filesize:  8.1MB
  • 22-08-2007
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Is it important to make a distinction between the wider field of Social Enterprise and Social Firms? Mark Powell has been involved with the latter for many years and believes there is a case to be made. We chatted at the Social Firms UK annual conference in Edinburgh.

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Lessons from America?

Lessons from America?
  • Duration:  08:10
  • Filesize:  6.6MB
  • 24-07-2007
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How does Scotland's social enterprise community compare with the US? We chat to Neal Mackay from Forth Sector in Edinburgh during the Scottish Social Enterprise Study Tour of California, outside of the impressive Delancy Street Foundation complex in San Francisco.

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Transatlantic Alliance

Transatlantic Alliance
  • Duration:  08:10
  • Filesize:  6.5MB
  • 23-07-2007
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The members of the Scottish Social Enterprise Study Tour attended the 8th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance in Long Beach. We spoke to new SEA chief executive Kris Prendergast.

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Peer Support Vital for Business

Peer Support Vital for Business
  • Duration:  10:05
  • Filesize:  8.1MB
  • 23-07-2007
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Dave McDonough and his colleagues from the Social Enterprise Institute in California believe creating local forums from both the for profit and non-profit community can improve your social enterprise. He was speaking at the 8th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance in Long Beach.

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SE Graduates are Increasing

SE Graduates are Increasing
  • Duration:  09:03
  • Filesize:  7.3MB
  • 22-05-2007
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Students are increasingly turning to social enterprise as a business model. In the second part of the conversation with Sarah Chiles from the Stern School of Business at New York University, she talks about the growing trend.

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South Africa and SE

South Africa and SE
  • Duration:  09:46
  • Filesize:  7.8MB
  • 22-05-2007
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South Africa has been overcoming a turbulent period in its history. In the first part of her interview, Geralda Wildschutt from Ashoka in South Africa discusses the challenges the country faces and how social enterprise can play a part. She was attending the 7th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance in Atlanta.

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SE Down Under

SE Down Under
  • Duration:  07:17
  • Filesize:  5.8MB
  • 21-05-2007
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Matt Jones is Director of Social Alchemy in Paddington in New South Wales in Australia. In the first part of his interview, he told us why he was attending the 7th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance in Atlanta. He's on a Churchill Fellowship of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

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Is SE the same the World Over?

Is SE the same the World Over?
  • Duration:  09:41
  • Filesize:  7.8MB
  • 21-05-2007
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In the second part of his interview, Matt Jones, from Social Alchemy in Paddington in New South Wales, wonders if Australia can learn any lessons from social enterprise in the USA and from the UK.

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Battle of the Sexes?

Battle of the Sexes?
  • Duration:  09:35
  • Filesize:  7.7MB
  • 16-05-2007
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Who's the driving force in social enterprise, men, women, or both? In the first part of her conversation, Vice-President of the Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation, Julann Jatczak explains their role, while attending the 7th Gathering of the Social Enterprise Alliance in Atlanta.

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